Quotes about "Environmental & Nature"

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ”

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language. ”

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. ”

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. ”

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. ”

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. ”

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty. ”

We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people. ”

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways. ”

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ”